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Best job ever! - Project Manager Babel Media Employee Review

1.0
28 Sept 2016
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Pros

I was promoted to project manager last year, but I need to be honest: I have no clue of what I am doing here! I mean, when I finished my studies In Arts, I started working here as a QA tester. I was earning the minimum wage, but who cares! I had the best job ever. After several months doing night shifts, double shifts, weekends and lots of over time without complaining I was promoted to Senior Tester. I was stuck in that position for years until finally after all the leads and project managers were my friends I was promoted to a Lead position. Wow! Now I was managing teams and leading projects. It is a pity that I didn't have any leading skills and I didn’t receive any training for that position. The good thing is that nobody cares, so even if all the testers complained about my incompetence, arrogance and lack of knowledge and experience; nobody will fire me! Now the floor manager is my best buddy. And now, I am a project manager. I don't know what that is but it sounds important and classy. Now my salary is much better, not as good as my brother's who is working in this fast food restaurant but it's ok because is the industry standard. In my new role I started hearing from my bosses in Dublin lots of weird words like, Kanban, Gantt charts, pert charts, efficient teams, coaching, mentorship... What is all that!!!?? Bah! I miss just testing video games. Now I need to pretend that I care and that I am a reference for the testers, that's why I'm reading Project Management for dummies! But even though, I can't manage to do a decent job, a have tons of accumulated work, thousands of unread emails, I don't know why is so important to focus on employees. But I am not worried. All the others PM are in the same situation. This place is heaven! We have donuts, free coffee, 2 bbq per year, Halloween and xmas parties, bagels, lots of video games, 3 consoles in the new brand cafeteria.

Cons

I can't think in anything bad. I mean, the whole office looks like my home, although my friends keep telling me that I live in a dump but for me it’s perfect.

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5.0
3 Jul 2017
Anonymous employee
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Pros

- Laidback environment - Easy to get along with coworkers - Lots of potential projects to work on - Lots of room for promotions if you connect with the correct people and put in the work

Cons

- Small office - Lower pay than other places

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2.0
31 Aug 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Some testing can be fun if you're lucky enough to land on a project in line with your tastes, but much of the work is monotonous and repetitive (just the nature of the job somewhat-not the employer). Free coffee on evening shifts and Fridays. Many good, driven, and talented people (though sadly often exploited and not used to their full potential. Still, lots of good folks, both in contract pool (at least 80% of employees, depending on season) and in senior testing/lead and management roles. Great IT department.

Cons

It's a digital assembly line. After some minimum requirements, not difficult work, which sadly leads to a lot of seat-filling, which is not only bad for the clients and their customers, but also can result in poor job satisfaction. Complaints about labour standards are often met with buck-passing, placating, and then indifference. Poor hygiene standards, only a few bathrooms for hundreds of employees a day, which are also open to other offices in building...often no soap in washrooms, close quarters working environment. Inadequate breaks. No benefits like health or dental of any kind for contract employees. Cutting of hours to avoid OT pay while simultaneously asking employees to work overtime shifts without notice. 40 hour per week Availability without any guaranteed hours.

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